HEAL Institute pavilion

What it is. One of the resident pavilions at Dubai’s Museum of the Future, part of the “Journey of the Pioneers” complex led by Atelier Brückner, which received the Blooloop Innovation Award, 1st Place, Exhibit category, in 2024.

The Dubai Future Foundation immerses visitors in a world 50 years from now through three levels: a Space Station, the HEAL Institute for ecosystem regeneration, and ALWAHA for wellbeing and senses.

— Atelier Brückner, project page for Journey of the Pioneers.

The problem behind it. Planetary health and ecosystem regeneration live in dense science and abstract global data. The HEAL Institute level had to make the next forty years of regeneration legible and physical, something a visitor could walk through and feel rather than only read about.

What I did. I served as a Science Advisor through The Life Robotic, part of an interdisciplinary group of designers, scientists, and clinicians supporting the lead exhibition team. The pavilion design was led by Atelier Brückner with the Museum of the Future’s Sandbox team. Adjacent pavilions in the same complex were developed with Marshmallow Laser Feast, Superflux, and Certain Measures. My slice of the work was scientific review and content judgment in late-stage production: keeping the speculative future tethered to research that actually exists today.